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Seems like the USA is being exposed
- Thread starter kidfury
- Start date
How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down
It's one of several places in Asia that did not use draconian lockdown strategies to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
www.npr.org
we already spend more on healthcare than other countries
healthcare should be looked at as infrastructure
we have extremely expensive defense infrastructure to guard against the unlikely even of nuclear war— why don’t we maintain the equivalent for pandemics which seem much more likely?
Yes, super honest. That’s why they gagged the CDC.
"When you have 15 people, and within a couple of days, it’s going to be down to close to zero … We really think we’ve done a great job in keeping it down to a minimum."
-Dementia J Trumby,
2020
It’s not just here though, healthcare everywhere isn’t up to the task
And nuclear war equipment is cheap compared to the conventional military gear
ok but you see my point
we’re ok with spending shitloads of $ to guard against the cataclysmic event of war but not on diseases
that is pretty dumb
Trump is an underlying medical condition. Our society is not well. Covid19 is exploiting that underlying condition. The USA is fat and out of shape.
Isn’t ifall always saying we should be suspicious of our leaders and not believe what they say?
Isn’t he always talking about how all politicians are corrupt and are not to be trusted? Why does he constantly go to bat for Trumby?
Isn’t he always talking about how all politicians are corrupt and are not to be trusted? Why does he constantly go to bat for Trumby?
I’ve always liked the theory of universal healthcare. I just don’t see it as something that will ever save us money or be efficient
And I’ve always been anti-military spending as well. We can protect US hegemony for cheaper and then spend more on ourselves
Basically to call you (ilk) out for thinking Trump is any different than the rest of them
Back to the "all politicians are corrupt so I will support and defend the most corrupt" logic.
I generally agree but I think this episode is exposing the ineptness of our healthcare system
for things like infectious diseases, you want to eliminate the risk that people won’t seek testing/care because of concerns that they won’t personally be able to pay the cost
you also want to have the resources to deal with mass events, which we clearly do not have
imagine if we didn’t spend trillions being world police
The lauded European systems are having the same problems we are despite the lack of costs to customers
Only South Korea was on top of things, and that could have just been luck of the draw with access to testing.
I agree though, imagine what we could do if we weren't Team America